King Lear - Act 1 + 2 - Animal Imagery
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- Created on: 11-01-18 16:15
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- Animal Imagery
- Act 2
- "Sharp-toothed unkindness like a vulture here"
- "struck me with her tongue, most-serpent like, upon the very heart"
- Context
- Mythological creatures - strength and danger
- Sea-monster biblical account of Leviathan and mythology
- Fox is sly, like how daughters are acting
- Vulture - waiting for Lear to die t ****** land and titles
- kite bird of prey - meanness, cruelty and death also biblical
- Serpent - genesis story - deceit
- Act 1
- "Detested kite"
- "sea-monster"
- "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child"
- "do not come between a dragon and his wrath"
- "A fox when one has caught her"
- Characters
- The Fool
- Lear
- Act 2
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